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Traction Engine being renovated & restored at Brian Sanders Yard near Penryn

Robin & Charles Daniel of Nanstallon near Bodmin - typical Cornish "Men of Steam"

PHOTO OF AN ENGRAVING DATED 1831
One of Cornwall's oldest, biggest and richest mines. Mineral recovery started on the site started in the C16 and continued until the 1920 earning many fortunes for its shareholders. Over £6 million of Copper & Tin…

Arsenic Chimney Cooling Pond Pendeen Lighthouse

Levant, hand drilling below the sea. Four men pictured with tools.

Belt-driven stone crusher with traction engine, with man working and small child in the foreground.

The West of England Steam Engine Societys 28th Annual Rally featuring a 1937 Ruston Hornsby Type HR 35 hp stationary engine owned by Michael Edwards of Pendeen, Cornwall.

Bus registration T 1406. Early bus services met with many "teething troubles" on the hilly unmetalled roads of Cornwall at the turn of the century. All the neighbours turn out to watch the event. Picturepurchased over 40 years ago.

East Pool & Agar Ltd 70 fathom Level in the Copper Workings of the Mine. Photo by J C Burrow FRPS.

Possibly Gustav Hamel at Trengwainton

Royal Navy fleet in Mounts Bay
Richards Photograph HPF Ref 25/56

"Fleets of Peace & War" in Mounts Bay

Possibly captured U-Boats 1914-18 war

Steam ploughing by brothers Robin & Charles Daniel. The plough is a 5 furrow antibalance plough built by Fowlers of Leeds in 1911. The plough was pulled by 2 Steam Traction Engines positioned at oppositeends of the field.